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From: shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
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Subject: Brain-dead jobs hangin' around, and other grusome subjects...
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Date: 12 Nov 90 14:56:01 GMT
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Occasional invocations of "ps -ef" on a Personal Iris (25TG) running
3.2.1 have revealed dead jobs haunting the system.  Most of these
seem to be residues of running the "man" command, often several days/
logins ago.  Since man sets up a pipe, each invocation that hangs around
keeps three or four jobs on the list;  however, this does not happen for
every invocation of "man".  Does anyone out there have an idea how this 
can be prevented?

A related question.  A text excerpt grabbed from a wsh using the "copy"
menu-selection remains attached to the middle mouse button across
login sessions.  Is there any way to avoid this?

Finally, someone posted a query a few months ago about how to save the
screen layout -- I think he proposed something like Sun's "Save Screen
Layout" menu selection.  It seems to me that there was some reply to
this that gave a mechanism for figuring out where things are on the
screen, once you've got it the way you like it.  Could some kind soul
who archived this reply please forward it to me?  I'd appreciate any
other remarks that might help, as well.

	-P.
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